Loggerhead Shrike

[Matthew Studebaker]

Osceola County, FL | January | Canon Mk IV | Canon 600mm f4
1/320 Second f6.3 ISO 200

For this shot, I found an ugly fencepost this bird kept percing on, and simply attached my own perch to the top to make it a little more attractive.

[Markus Jais]

Fantastic shot. Great BG, light and colors. Lovely perch and perfect head angle.
A stunning shot of this species.

Markus

[Nagesh Mula]

This is one beautiful shot Mathew with enough space around. Very sharp, good eye contact and exposure. Congrats!!

[Daniel Pettersson]

Wonderful portrait. Great eye contact and a clean, colorful BG's adding extra focus on the bright shrike. Great!

[Randy Stout]

Matthew:

Sharp, perfectly exposed, posed, and composed.

Cheers

Randy

[Aidan Briggs]

Just lovely. THe soft light, perch, and BG are all excellent. Best songbird shot I have seen on this forum in a while.

[Bryan Hix]

I love everything about this. Exposure, sharpness, HA. Great tip on the perch, I am going to borrow that one if you don't mind. ;)

[Kiran Poonacha]

Lovely one Bhai, nice HA, pose and loved the compo.. the grass adds well..

[Raymond Barlow]

really well done Matthew, what a great idea.

[Matthew Studebaker]

That stuff growing on the perch looks like grass, but I know it isn't. Does anyone know what it is? It seems to like to grown on dead logs and sticks in oak groves in the Southern US. Really beautiful stuff.